Eco Focus: Leaves are feast for stream life

11:42 PM,
Nov. 17, 2012

Written by

David Strayer

We all have different Thanksgiving favorites. Some people really look forward to that big turkey, some crave sweet potatoes, and I must confess that I head straight for the pies. But today, I want to talk about that old Thanksgiving favorite - wet, rotting leaves.

Thanksgiving, of course, is a harvest festival, when we give thanks for the bounty of growing season that just ended and sample some of that bounty. In our case, that means turkey and potatoes and pumpkin and pies, but for our friends in the stream, it means wet, rotting leaves. ...